NEUROPTERISTS NEWSLETTER

VOICE OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEUROPTEROLOGY

NEW NEUROPTERA JOURNAL

A new refereed journal devoted to Neuropterida has just been announced. The editor will be Victor Monserrat. It is anticipated that the first issue will be free. Publication and reprint costs for subsequent issues have not yet been set. Subject matter will include all aspects of Megaloptera, Neuroptera, and Raphidioptera biology, morphology, systematics, biological control, etc. To obtain more information about issue deadlines, instructions to authors, etc., you can contact Victor Monserrat at: Departamento de Biologia Animal I, Facultad de Biologia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, E-28040, Spain. If no photos or illustrations are included, manuscripts may be sent to him via e-mail at artmad@eucmax.sim.ucm.es.

MEXICAN COLLECTING PERMITS

by

David Bowles

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department

At the recent International Trilateral Commission (U.S.A., Mexico, and Canada Fish and Wildlife Agencies) annual meeting held in Oaxaca, Mexico, I participated in discussions on collecting permits for Mexico and Canada. The following are some important items addressed during these discussions:

A) Jesus Bustamante, Special Agent, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, emphasized that, in addition to a valid collecting permit issued by the host country, the collector also must possess a valid export permit issued by the host country, and for importation into the U.S., an import permit issued by the U.S. (USFWS Form 3-177, Declaration for Importation or Exportation of Fish or Wildlife). The latter form also must be used when obtaining or returning any borrowed specimens loaned from foreign countries. Agent Bustamante informed the audience that a collecting permit only allows for specimens to be collected and not exported. For U.S. citizens, failure to obtain the necessary permits is a violation of the U.S. Lacey Act. Collectors are advised to coordinate foreign collecting activities with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service before actually doing the collecting.

B) For U.S. collectors, requests for collecting permits should be coordinated with the U.S. Embassy in the host country. Such coordination will expedite the permit process. For Mexico, the U.S. Embassy contact is William Gibbons-Fly, Fisheries Attache, American Embassy, Reforma 305, 06500 Mexico City, MEXICO.

C) Rodrigo Medellin, Instituto Nacional de Ecologia, Secretaria del Media Ambiente, Recursos Naturales y Pesca, informed the audience that Mexico is in the process of refining its collecting permit acquisition process. They currently are developing a "collecting visa" program for scientists that will be easier and faster to obtain, and can be used by associates of a given project as long as Mexican authorities are aware of the associates' participation in the project. The "collecting visa" program should be operational in about five to six months. Mr. Medillin also stated that as long as representatives of a Mexican agency or university actively participate in a project (i.e., permitted individuals accompany you in the field), you need not obtain a collecting permit yourself. However, you still will need an export permit (and for entry into the U.S.A., a U.S. import permit). Theoretically, permits obtained for work on collaborative projects with Mexco are free of administrative fees.

REPRINT AVAILABLE

I have been given the remaining stock of reprints of the classical comparative morphological work by Thomas Acker (1960) on male neuropteroid genitalia. Anyone wishing free copies should request them from Norman D. Penny, California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A. 94118.

RECENT LITERATURE

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Hölzel, H. 1995. Was ist unter Chrysopa prasina Burmeister, 1839 zu verstehen. Galathea 2. supplement. 3. Treffen deutschsprachiger Neuropterologen. p.3.

Hölzel, H. 1996. Neue Chrysopidae-Spezies aus Afrika. 1. Apochrysa wagneri n.sp. (Neuroptera: Planipennia). Entomologische Zeitschrift 106(3):117-120.

Hölzel, H. and P. Ohm. 1995. Four new Chrysopidae species from the Madagascan subregion (Neuroptera). Zeitschrift der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Österreichischer Entomologen 47(3-4):112-118.

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Krivokhatskii, V.A. 1995. New taxa of Asiatic ant lions (Neuroptera, Myrmeleontidae). Entomologicheskoye Obozreniye 74(5):33-42.

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Marin, F. and V.J. Monserrat. 1995. Contribución al conocimiento de los neurópteros de Zaragoza (Insecta, Neuropteroidea). Zapateri, Revista aragonesa de Entomologia 5:109-126.

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Monserrat, V.J. and J. Bayo. 1995. Nuevos datos sobre los coniopterígidos de Méjico central (Neuroptera: Coniopterygidae). Boletin de la Asociacion Espanola de Entomologia 19(3-4):125-130.

Monserrat, V.J. and F. Martin. 1994. Plant substrate specificity of Iberian Chrysopidae (Insecta: Neuroptera). Acta Oecologica 15(2):119-131.

Monserrat, V.J. 1995. Nuevos datos sobre los Coniopterigidos de las Regiones Paleártica y Afrotropical (Neuroptera: Coniopterygidae). Graellsia 50(1994):109-127.

Monserrat, V.J. 1996. Larval Stages of European Nemopterinae, with Systematic Considerations on the Family Nemopteridae (Insecta, Neuroptera). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 43(1):99-121.

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Ohm, P. 1995. Coniopterygidae in Bernstein-Einschlüssen, Eine vorläufige Übersicht. Galathea 2. Supplement. 3. Treffen deutschsprachiger Neuropterologen. pp. 19-20.

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Penny, N.D. and V.F. Lee. 1996. Types of Mecoptera, Megaloptera, Raphidioptera, and Neuroptera (Insecta) in the collection of the California Academy of Sciences. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 49(4):127-149.

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Entomological News 107(3):137-140.

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